#347: Joseph Tooks-Bloom Township (IL) HS | From Blazing Trojan to Transformational Track Leader
What happens when a kid who raced his principal in 5th grade grows into the head coach of the Blazing Trojans? In this episode, Mike sits down with Joseph Tooks, the energetic and intentional girls’ h...
26 Tammi 1h 49min
#104: Gill1918 presents JC Lambert "Coaching the Throws and the Weight Room Part 2"
Back in the fall of 2025, Coach Marques Lowe (Gill podcast alum!) and the Vipers Track Club hosted a Central Illinois Pre-Season Coaches Clinic. To increase the value to other coaches, he has allowed ...
22 Tammi 17min
#103: Gill1918 presents JC Lambert "Coaching the Throws and the Weight Room Part 1"
Back in the fall of 2025, Coach Marques Lowe (Gill podcast alum!) and the Vipers Track Club hosted a Central Illinois Pre-Season Coaches Clinic. To increase the value to other coaches, he has allowed ...
21 Tammi 19min
#102: Gill1918 Presents Katie Follett "Championship Mindset" Powered by Coach O
Katie is a mental skills coach for Elevated Performance following a 13-year career as a pro runner including winning a US Road Mile Championship and being a 3000m World Championships finalist. This is...
20 Tammi 11min
#346: Laurie Feit-Melnick - Univ of Rhode Island | 33 Years of Leadership, Legacy & Trailblazing
From Long Island in the early 1980s—where girls weren’t even allowed to run cross country—to becoming the second head women’s coach in University of Rhode Island history, Laurie Feit-Melnick has spent...
19 Tammi 1h 45min
BONUS: Live from USTFCCCA 2025 | Interviews from the Convention
Each year at the USTFCCCA Convention, we sit down with coaches for micro 5-10/ish minute interviews. This year we asked them "What are you a nerd about off the track?" in an attempt to learn about the...
15 Tammi 3h 15min
#101: Gill1918 Project presents Andrew Basler "Leaders Don't Always Have the Loudest Voices"
Andrew Balser joins us on the Gill1918 Project to teach us about a leadership lesson that made him a better coach, a better father, and a better husband. Early in his professional journey he thought l...
14 Tammi 17min
#100: Gill1918 Presents David Mitchell “The Joy of Being Simple-Minded” Powered by Coach O
David is a nationally known T&F announcer and is the Director of Client Relations for Coach O. Pulling from his decades coaching experience, he shares how to simplify the teaching of new concepts for ...
13 Tammi 16min
